Author: Charles Haddon SpurgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Eccentric preachers
Author: Charles Haddon SpurgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Eccentric Preacher
Author: Lorenzo DowPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429017996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.
Eccentric Preachers
Author: Charles SpurgeonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535562041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Charles Spurgeon was a popular Baptist preacher in the 19th century who became known as the Prince of Preachers. Spurgeon served as the pastor in London for nearly 40 years and was a prolific author of Christian prayerbooks, devotionals, sermons, and biblical studies. Spurgeon's sharp wit still makes him one of the most popular and influential Christian authors today. In this book Spurgeon gives valuable advice to people who want to become ministers and then provides small biographies of important preachers in his day.
Eccentric Preachers
Author: Charles H. SpurgeonPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230417547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... CAUSES OF ECCENTRICITY. We have continued talking about eccentric men, but we have not yet decided what it is which makes a man eccentric. Let us now come to the point. Some ministers have been reckoned eccentric simply and only because they have been natural. They have been themselves, and not copies of others: what was in them they have not restrained, but have given full play to all their powers. Take for instance John Berridge. Berridge was quaint by nature. In the former lecture I quoted purposely from his letters rather than from any of his sermons or di- . dactic works, because in a letter you see a man at ease. Berridge could not help being singular, for the form of his mind led him in that direction, and his bachelor life helped to develop his idiosyncrasies. His quaintness was all his own, and you see it in his household arrangements, as, for instance, when he says to a friend: "I am glad to see you write of a visit to Everton; we have always plenty of horse provender at hand; but unless you send me notice beforehand of your coming, you will have a cold and scanty meal; for we roast only twice in the week. Let me have a line, and I will give you the same treat I always gave to Mr. Whitefield, an eighteen-penny barn-door fowl; this will neither burst you nor ruin me; half you shall have at noon with a pudding, and the rest at night. Much grace and sweet peace be with yourself and partner; and the blessing of a new heart be with your children. With many thanks, I remain your affectionate servant, J. B." Nor is it less manifest in his hymns, even the most sober of them, as for instance in the well-known verse where he speaks of the saints in heaven and cries-- "Ah, Lord, with feeble steps I creep, And sometimes sing and sometimes...
Eccentric Preachers
Author: Charles Haddon SpurgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Eccentric Preachers
Author: Charles H. SpurgeonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015446724
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Preachers and Preaching
Author: Henry ChristmasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Preaching
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Eccentric Preachers
Author: Charles SpurgeonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544800332
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
I HAVE published this little volume very much in self-defense. Some years ago I delivered a lecture on "Eccentric Preachers," and a reporter's notes of it were published in one of the newspapers. These, like all such things, were mere pickings and cuttings, and by no means the lecture itself. Gentlemen of the press have an eye to the amusement of their readers, and make selections of all the remarkable anecdotes, or odd sayings, used by a speaker, and when these are separated from their surroundings the result is anything but satisfactory. No man's speeches or lectures should be judged of by an ordinary newspaper summary, which in any case is a mere sketch, and in many instances is a vile caricature. I thought no more of my lecture till the other day I found the mere rags and bones of the reporter set forth in America as an address by myself, worthy to be bound up with my book upon "Commenting and Commentaries." Those notes were all very well for a newspaper, but I altogether disown them as my production. It amazes me that the American editor should not have corrected the more obvious mistakes of the reporter, such as calling Peter Cartwright Peter Garrett, and Lady Ann Askew Lady Askayne. Peter Cartwright was an American backwoods preacher, and his name should have been familiar to the American editor, but some publishers are so intent upon getting out their books that they cannot afford time for correction.Finding that I had by me the whole of the mutilated lecture, I thought of printing it, to show what I had really spoken; but upon looking it over, I judged it to be better to expand it and make it into a small book. I hope the reader will not be a loser by my resolution. I desire by this little volume to plead against the carping spirit which makes a man an offender for a word, and the lying spirit which scatters falsehood right and left, to the injury and grief of the most zealous of my Master's servants. Many hearers lose much blessing through criticizing too much, and meditating too little; and many more incur great sin by calumniating those who live for the good of others. True pastors have enough of care and travail without being burdened by undeserved and useless fault-finding. We have something better to do than to be for ever answering every malignant or frivolous slander which is set afloat to injure us. We expected to prove our ministry "by evil report and by good report," and we are not therefore overwhelmed by abuse as though some new thing had happened unto us; and yet there are tender, loving spirits who feel the trial very keenly, and are sadly hindered in brave service by cruel assaults. The rougher and stronger among us laugh at those who ridicule us, but upon others the effect is very sorrowful. For their sakes are these pages written; may they be a warning to wanton witlings who defame the servants of the Most High God. As ministers we are very far from being perfect, but many of us are doing our best, and we are grieved that the minds of our people should be more directed to our personal imperfections than to our divine message. God has purposely put his treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power should be ascribed to himself alone: we beseech our hearers not to be so occupied with the faults of the casket as to forget the jewel. Wisdom is justified of her children, and grace works by such instruments as it pleases. Reader, be it yours to profit by all my Master's servants, and even by Yours truly, C. H. SPURGEON. GET MORE BOOKS AT REVIVALPRESS.NET
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
Author: John TimbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
Author: John TimbsPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities is a humorous work by John Timbs. An entertaining and light reading that covers different personalities, in a quirky fashion that Brits are well acquainted with.